"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

Sade, Marquis De on women
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"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

Evans, Dame Edith on women
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on women
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"We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men."

Eliot, George on women
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"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."

Duras, Marguerite on women   

"All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking."

Deutsch, Helene on women   

"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."

Cobbett, William on women
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"It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women."

James, Selma on women   

"Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others."

Janeway, Elizabeth on women   

"The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul."

Lawrence, D. H. on women   

"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Onassis, Aristotle on women
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"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks."

Nelms, Cynthia on women
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"To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man."

Meir, Golda on women
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"A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide."

Lynes, Russell on women
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"Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian."

Lebowitz, Fran on women
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"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football."

Lebowitz, Fran on women   

"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on women
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"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth."

Cartland, Barbara on women
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"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

Carter, Angela on women
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"Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Rowland, Helen on women   

"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous."

Pizzey, Erin on women   

"Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different."

Millet, Kate on women   

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Meir, Golda on women
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"Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation."

Mead, Margaret on women   

"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."

Mcginley, Phyllis on women   

"To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman."

Harrison, Jane on women   

"A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo."

Stein, Ruthie on women
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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Steinem, Gloria on women
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"The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg."

Thatcher, Margaret on women
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"A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on women   

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"If women were humbler, men would be more honest."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on women
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